The being who discharges the duties of its station, is independent; and, speaking of women at large, their first duty is to themselves as rational creatures, and the next, in point of importance, as citizens, is that, which includes so many, of a mother.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

The river Nigris has the same characteristics as the Nile; it produces the calamus, the papyrus, and just the same animals, and it rises at the same seasons of the year.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The text of this long chapter (fifteen quarto pages) is broken and corrupted; and the narrative is perplexed by the want of chronological and geographical landmarks.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sustaining and constructive forces did indeed for a time more than balance the malign drift of chance and the natural ignorance, prejudice, blind passion, and wasteful self-seeking of mankind.
— from The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

REVELATION AND INSPIRATION Prof. Johannes Weiss (University of Heidelberg) PAUL AND JESUS Prof. Rudolph Eucken (University of Jena) CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEW IDEALISM Prof. P. Vinogradoff (Oxford University) ROMAN LAW IN MEDIÆVAL EUROPE Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S., LL.D. DIAMONDS.
— from Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by T. Eric (Thomas Eric) Peet

Both the captain of the "Livingstone" and Lieutenant Gilroy had ample private means, and they did not hesitate to spend money for the good of the country and the Navy in particular.
— from A Sub. of the R.N.R.: A Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Thousands of trees are thus protected, but usually these are in possession of white men, for tin is costly and the native is poor.
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

For some hours after the operation, it is necessary to clear out the instrument frequently by means of a feather, otherwise its extremity will soon become obstructed by coagula; in short, this must be persevered in till colourless flow from the orifice shows that the internal oozing of blood has ceased, and that nothing is passing but urine.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

[6] "Christianity and the New Idealism", p. 146.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

On arriving off the lighthouse, steer in between the North and South Heads until you are past the line of bearing of the Outer North, and the Inner South Heads: then haul round the latter, but avoid a reef of rocks that extends for two hundred yards off the point, and steer for Middle Head, a projecting cliff at the bottom of the bay, until the harbour opens round the Inner South Head; you may then pass on either side of the Sow and Pigs; but the eastern channel, although the narrowest, is perhaps the best; but this, in a great measure, depends upon the direction of the wind.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

Under the Bourbon kings of France more than one half of the produce of the land was taken by the Government and the feudal proprietors without compensation, and that not in provision for coming national trouble, but for the fattening of the royal purse.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord

[75] "Covent Garden Drolery, Or a Colection of all the Choice Songs, Poems, Prologues, and Epilogues (Sung and Spoken at Courts and Theaters) never in Print before.
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley